Hermosso's AI image upscaler is a free-to-try online tool that unblurs and enlarges photos up to 22K resolution: upload a small, soft or compressed image and the AI enhances its resolution and quality — sharper detail, rebuilt faces, cleaner textures — with five tiers from a faithful 4K pass at 50 credits to a 22K rebuild at 400 credits. New accounts get 400 free credits, so your first eight 4K upscales are free.
People find this tool under many names — free image upscaler, free images upscaler, a free image resolution enhancer — but the jobs behind the search are the same:
| Tool | Price | What it does better | Where Hermosso wins |
|---|---|---|---|
| Topaz Gigapixel | Around $99 as a one-time desktop licence | A mature desktop app with manual controls and offline batch processing — and its engine powers our 8K tier. | The same Gigapixel engine in the browser at 150 credits per image — no $99 licence, nothing to install. |
| Magnific | Subscription plans from roughly $39/month | Highly creative re-imagining with granular sliders for detail and hallucination strength. | Creative and faithful upscaling without a $39 monthly commitment — see the balanced Hermosso vs Magnific comparison. |
| Upscayl | Free and open source | Genuinely free, unlimited and offline — the best option when budget is zero. | Runs on your own hardware and tops out at moderate sizes; Hermosso reaches 8K and 22K with face-aware models, in the browser. |
| Remini | A free tier with ads on mobile; Pro is around $10 a week | One-tap face enhancement on a phone, in seconds. | Full-resolution upscaling to 22K in the browser, with no weekly subscription and credits that never expire. |
| Hermosso | 50–400 credits per image (400 free credits on sign-up; plans from $9/month) | — | Five engines from faithful 4K to 22K in one tool, then edit, animate or restore the result in the same studio. |
AI upscaling reconstructs plausible detail; it cannot recover information the camera never captured, so a hopelessly blurred face comes back plausible rather than accurate. If the photo is genuinely old — scratched, faded or black-and-white — use the dedicated photo restoration tool first, which repairs damage and colorizes. And for clips rather than stills, use the video upscaler (1080p and 4K, up to 60 seconds).
Yes, to start — new accounts receive 400 free credits and a standard 4K upscale runs 50 credits, so you can enhance eight images free before paying anything; after that, plans start at $9/month — see pricing.
Yes, to a point — the upscaler reconstructs plausible detail (especially faces) and rebuilds the image at up to 22K in one pass. It cannot recover information that was never captured.
Hermosso's 22K Max tier (400 credits, powered by SeedVR2) rebuilds texture, text and faces at up to 22K — the largest output available anywhere — while the 8K Gigapixel tier (150 credits) covers print-grade work.
Yes — the 8K Gigapixel tier is built for print-grade detail, and 22K Max covers large-format prints; both include face enhancement so portraits hold up at size.
Use the dedicated old photo restoration tool — it repairs damage, restores faces and colorizes — then upscale the restored result here for a large print.
Yes — the video upscaler enhances clips up to 60 seconds to crisp 1080p or 4K, priced per 5-second block.
Read the guides: how to unblur an image with AI and the best AI image upscalers compared. See plans and pricing.